Last week, I received the same message 3 times on my Yahoo email account. Someone had entered my correct password from a different computer, it warned. My first impulse was to open the message to discover the perpetrator, then I thought better of it. I emailed my web manager, instead. He told me to delete the message as it was a ploy to get me to react. I’d almost fallen for it.

According to Money Magazine 33% of all fraud today happens on the internet. 20% comes through the print media and only 8% comes through telemarketing. (“Spend Smarter, Christopher Elliott, Money Magazine, June 2013 pg. 67)

To protect yourself on the internet, David Jacobs, a consumer protection counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, gives the following advice: Don’t post private information on social networks. Don’t open spam email. Do install a free privacy-enhancing browser add-on that blocks companies from recording your web history. I use Do Not Track which is a free service. Jacobs suggests another way to increase security is to check the privacy settings on your browser and follow the instructions in your system to eliminate third-party cookies.

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.